From top: Denis O’Brien; Red Flag Pr consultancy’s logo
In the High Court.
Denis O’Brien’s conspiracy case against Red Flag for allegedly undermining Digicel’s public offering continues…
Senior Counsel Michael Collins said in Mr O’Brien’s first affidavit he said he hired “professional investigators” to carry out inquiries about the source of a possible campaign against him.
He said it later turned out that it was an accountant in Kiev who simply carried out a “one-man desk search” for media stories that were publicly available.
…In a subsequent statement he said the Red Flag involvement was revealed to him after a USB stick arrived on his desk anonymously.
Mr Collins said the USB stick “simply materialised on his desk like Doctor Who’s Tardis”.
He said a USB stick marked for his attention could not have simply arrived on his desk in his office at his business headquarters in Grand Canal Street as Mr O’Brien claims because it would have to have been delivered to someone or gone through security.
“It is inconceivable that someone just waltzed into his office and left it there yet there was no record of how it was delivered,” Mr Collins told the court.
Lawyers say O’Brien’s statements implausible (RTÉ)
(RollingNews)
Poor baby needs his blanky.
I LOL’d :)
Memory Sticks.
What a stupid name?
I always forget where my ones are.
It looks to me like he’s suing based on ill gotten information, however he got it – Inspector Clouseau over in Kiev or the USB fairy.
Not that I think the information even warrants a law suit, but if he doesn’t have a creditable story on how he could legitimately have the information – the underhanded little weasel – he should be told fupp off.
The monkey did
It’s called ‘obfuscation‘.
It’s in the dictionary.
He had no pants on?
Anne I like your plot. If I claimed that I used a Kiev based private investigator to investigate but then realised that doing so might not be legal because the investigator isn’t licensed in Ireland, I could blame my solicitor whether they liked it or not, and then shield myself behind client confidentiality.
If I got a Kiev based investigator to find something out, I would be displeased if the investigator didn’t deploy some crack ex-forces squad to hack ‘n’ crack their way to the information. I’d be pissed off if all the investigator did was a bit of Googling when a clever journalist could do much more than that, better and faster. I would even expect the investigator to have delivered the contents of the ‘images’ / photographs before they were even taken. I would be a demanding client. And if I got an envelope with an encryption key written on it, I’d keep the envelope so that I’d keep the encryption key. I would probably call the encryption key a password because I wouldn’t know the difference.
Mind you, I would take my time and follow the required steps methodically so I wouldn’t have to change my story to match the emerging facts.
Fascinating stuff indeed.
Good to know Denis O’Brien is receiving a comprehensive note of what’s written about him in the media, including, concerns about litigation and media ownership resulting in effective censorship of free speech.
Maybe it will eventually sink in that these concerns are genuinely based and not capable of being dismissed as part of a ‘personal vendetta’ against him.
This and all of it !
Sounds like a massive personal spat between two men. Either or both should get over themselves.
Denis has had a fair few spats with numerous people he’s sued and tried to keep quiet.
I suggest you do some reading up on his dealings..
Tut, tut, tut…
It’s bigger than that.
Whoops…that was directed at Tish.
I love you Anne.
I’m afraid of me life of fighting with YOU.
lEAVE ME alone
I’m switching off me computer.
Em… you didn’t reply to Anne in the first place…. you OK boss? …..will we see you this evening… ooooh, I dunno, usual time…. around 10.30pm-ish gargled and waitin’ for the Saturday papers so you can tear the world a new one…..
….I remember when that was me, sorta maybe, in fairness, kinda (just binged on ‘Fargo’).
Although not sure my kinda crazee matches your unhingedness :) Of course, I mean that in all good respect. And I apologise to everyone else for encouraging you :)
*hugs* and love across the ether
Nah.
Much simpler than that.
I’ll explain it here, this once, and I hope very few people see it.
My Modus Operandi begins and ends with contempt for ‘social’ media, in all it’s forms.
I enjoy a bit of banter, but I don’t like those who manipulate it or attempt to do so.
I’m not nasty, I’m just hostile towards misinformation.
And I drink a lot…
…otherwise I wouldn’t be here.
Je parle Francais aussi, mais mais mais vous ne devez pas le faire ici
Ya big softie…I’d bet :)
Cue ‘Mr. Bojangles’.
@ Clampers;
Ya big softie…I’d bet :)
That was underhanded and incorrect.
I always choose the blue pill, whether I need to or not.
What’s the definition of implausible? Lovely word.
implausible???
Denis O’Brien and the truth….THAT’S implausible
The ‘News’ and facts in alignment…that’s implausible.
If he wins this case, then we’ll know, once and for all, that he is actually in full control of the country, and it will be time to seriously reconsider all our (collective) futures. And ,sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq, dont fret too much over your fondness for a drink, uncle leo is in the process of sorting that out for everyone.
David Norris and the lovely Leo singing off the same songsheet
awwwww
Thank you for spelling my name correctly kingperricrisptayto. Nobody else botrhers.
The price of drink never bothers me, it’s the weight of it I’m concerned about.
You try cycling through rush hour traffic with two bags on each handlebar when you’re busting for a pee.
It’s no joke.
Are people just ignoring the fact that Redflag have admitted they compiled this dossier on behalf of a client?
So they’ve admitted there is someone out to get him?
But that doesn’t matter cause he’s mr bad…………………
Someone out to get him is a pile of bullpoo.
The information is either untrue or it’s not.. ‘out to get him’ should be his own fupping problem.
No, ‘out to get him’ is the smoke and mirrors.
When you say ‘either untrue or it’s not’, that means it’s working. You should be saying ‘true or not true’.
(I can’t be bothered doing italics in this comment. It’s too laboursome.)
Andy, Denis O’Brien is a controversial person. Some people have strong feelings about what he has done. Sarah Carey wrote that he’s a great guy, she’s a bad example because she’s a self admitted perjurer. Some people think that he’s a great guy for being involved with The Special Olympics. Some other people just have a feeling that he is corrupt and a tax dodger of Ireland. Some people feel that they can obliterate him with proof of some conspiracy between himself and the then Justice Minister. NO! others cry. Who’s to know? It is all very interesting.